WDSI-TV

WDSI-TV
Channels
Branding
  • True Crime Network
  • Comet (on DT2)
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
  • New Age Media, LLC
  • (New Age Media of Tennessee License, LLC)
OperatorSinclair Broadcast Group (select engineering functions via LMA)
WFLI-TV, WTVC
History
First air date
January 24, 1972 (52 years ago) (1972-01-24)
Former call signs
WRIP-TV (1972–1983)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 61 (UHF, 1972–2009)
  • Digital: 40 (UHF, 1999–2018)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID71353
ERP120 kW
HAAT306 m (1,004 ft)
Transmitter coordinates35°9′38.7″N 85°19′5.8″W / 35.160750°N 85.318278°W / 35.160750; -85.318278
Links
Public license information

WDSI-TV (channel 61) is a television station in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with True Crime Network and Comet. The station is owned by New Age Media, which also operates Cleveland-licensed dual CW/MyNetworkTV affiliate WFLI-TV (channel 53) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with MPS Media. Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of dual ABC/Fox affiliate WTVC (channel 9), provides some engineering functions for both stations under a master service agreement and also programs WFLI-TV.

WDSI-TV and WFLI-TV share studios on East Main Street (SR 8/US 41/US 76) in Chattanooga's Highland Park section; master control and some internal operations for the two stations are based at WTVC's facilities on Benton Drive in Chattanooga.[2] WDSI-TV's transmitter is located on Signal Mountain in the town of Walden.

Established in 1972 as independent station WRIP-TV, channel 61 later became WDSI-TV in 1983. The station was a Fox affiliate from 1986 to 2015, when Sinclair purchased the programming assets of New Age Media's Chattanooga stations but did not assume program control of WDSI-TV.

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WDSI-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference SinclairMSA was invoked but never defined (see the help page).